
Work is pretty slow, I like keeping busy but the management is terrible and they do not keep me busy, nor do they care to understand what my job position is and how long things take. I have everything automated so I work maybe 10 minutes a day

Are there any good projects floating around that would like some help? Or technologies that may be just starting out? I wanted to implement a Hadoop cluster at work but we don't have the hardware to make it run anywhere as fast as it is meant for (1000's of cpu's).
Should I learn straight OpenGL? I just feel like I am reinventing the wheel since Irrlicht is awesome.